Eino S. Repo

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Eino Sakari Repo (born September 6, 1919, Isokyrö – died December 15, 2002, Helsinki) was the president of Yleisradio from 1965 to 1969 and head of the radio from 1969 to 1974. His time as president was known as Repo era or Repo's Radio.

Eino S. Repo took part in the Winter and Continuation War, and left the field in 1944 as captain.

In 1948 he graduated as a Candidate of Philosophy from the University of Helsinki, his main subject was literature.

Repo was a free literary critic and wrote criticisms to the Uusi Suomi and Parnasso newspapers. Repo was known as a radical, and so Uusi Suomi didn't like his writing any more, and also he didn't have a very good relationship with the main critic Veikko Antero Koskenniemi.

From 1958 to 1964 Repo was a reporter for Apu magazine, and then became a program manager at MTV3. When Yleisradio's president Einar Sundström retired in 1965, Repo became his successor as candidate of Agrarian Party. One of his supporters as Yleisradio's known president was Urho Kekkonen, then the President of Finland.

During the Repo presidency, big reforms were made at Yleisradio. During the Repo era left-wing student radicalism was growing also in Yleisradio.

Repo gave support to left-wing students and to their critical social programs, these offers started the so called Repo's Radio era. Many critics wrote that Repo's radio wasn't so much radio as it was a political institute, because the lefts had too close a relationship with the Soviet Union.

Yleisradio was blamed for supporting the lefts' victory in the parliament elections in 1966. Repo wasn't elected to a second five year term to Yleisradio, but he was made head of the radio. He retired in 1974.

During the Zavidovo scandal, Kekkonen's advisor Antero Jyränki told in his questioning that he gave the place of documents which were the part of the Zavidovo notepad, to Repo.